Three Hmong charged with drug trafficking
Three Hmong hilltribes from Chiang Mai were arrested at the Chatuchak weekend market and charged with possessing 14.5 million tablets of "ice" worth Bt450 million, police said yesterday.
Police investigation found that Kasama Charoenman, 37, Anuchon Laochang, 20 and Panya Wangtrakul, 25 operated a front business, selling hilltribe clothes and handicrafts such as bags in the market and distributed the narcotics to distributors. The drug used to be smuggled and hidden inside hilltribe bags delivered by buses and kept in a storeroom in the market, the police said.
The three confessed that they were hired for Bt389,000 by Hmong to deliver the drug to distributors, the police said.
Pol General Pongsapat Pongcharoen, secretary-general of the Office of Narcotics Control Board, said drug-sniffing dogs will patrol the Chatuchak weekend market as part of preventive measures.
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